Obama continued this two-way track vis-a-vis Iran and the issue of Palestinian statehood. Under his pressure, Israel suspended for the first time - for a while - construction in the settlements. Relations between the two countries' armed forces have never been so close. Obama's challenge in his second term, if he wins the elections, is to lead the region to a stable arrangement of peace and security.

The outcome of the elections will be determined by the voters' decision as to which of the two candidates is good for America. But if any of them are vacillating in their vote over whether Obama has been a good president for Israel, the answer is yes.

While Obama has come under constant criticism for his testy relationship with the Israeli government, a recent IBD/CSM/TIPP poll shows him leading among Jewish American voters 59 percent to 35 percent. That's down significantly from his 2008 results, where exit polls showed that he won 78 percent of Jewish voters.

UPDATE: Another Gallup poll from September shows Obama at 70 percent to 27 percent among Jewish voters — much closer to his 2008 exit poll totals than the IBD/CSM/TIPP poll. That IBD/CSM/TIPP poll warned that its sample of Jewish voters was relatively small.